[Seaside] Re: strong undo

[Philippe Marschall]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Something like that.  I don't know where to find a definition I can point
> to.  So to be less vague this is what I have in mind.
>
> As you both know the back button 'undoes' your navigation on regular links
> but can't undo a form submission or ajax requests that change things in the
> app.  I'd like to be able to offer a way to undo/redo those too, when
> appropriate.  To make experimenting and mistakes less costly for a user.  So
> that they do not have to remember what they changed, and when.
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> Ideally the undo of the navigation and the undo of the app changes would be
> tied either to the back button or just a button on the page.  One canonical
> spot for 'undo-ing' things a user does. I know I can't undo things like
> sending emails, but I'd like to be able to say: if you spend a half hour
> experimenting on this you can get back to where you were exactly before you
> started.
>
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> If it were a single user app I could probably get away with keeping a stack
> of model states for the user's whole model.  Since it is a  multi-user app
> that seems really complicated.  User A's temporary changes may or may not
> conflict with user B's permanent changes.
>
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> Maybe, as a first step, what I need is to just let a user make a copy of
> their whole model and pretend there is a playground/walled garden/simulator
> where a they can do experiments, and then when they're done either let them
> adopt the copy as their new model or keep it to mess with later.
>
>
> Anyway, if you have any ideas I'd love to hear them.

So you would like to be able to undo a database insert for example?
Strictly speaking through #states you can make any object backtracked.
The messages sent to it are #snapshotCopy and #restoreFromSnapshot:.

Cheers
Philippe